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UK sales of The Satanic Verses surge after Rushdie stabbing

Publisher Vintage has ordered a reprint following rush to buy the 1988 novel in the wake of the attack on the author earlier this month

The Guardian - UK

Anthony Horowitz: ‘These days, writers do have to self-censor’

The bestselling author and TV writer is about to release his 56th book. He speaks to Hannah Stephenson about the role of social media in spreading ‘harmful’ views, his belief that writers are self-censoring, and how his wife Hill is his most important critic

The Independent UK

Anthony Horowitz on cancel culture and the fear of offending

‘People seem to take offence a great deal more easily than they used to,’ says the bestselling author and TV writer,

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Missing Pages: the podcast revisiting jaw-dropping literary scandals

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

The Guardian - US

Behind Imran Khan’s condemnation of Rushdie stabbing and Pak media’s cautious response

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has often been in the news but has probably issued his sanest statement in recent times. Opposing the attack on Salman Rushdie in the British newspaper Guardian, Khan termed it “terrible” and “sad”, adding that the anger of Muslims at the book Satanic Verses…

Newslaundry

In Normally Tranquil Town, Shock over Rushdie Attack Persists

When Emily Sack saw a young man leap at Salman Rushdie on the stage of a cultural center in western New York state, it happened so suddenly that she barely realized she was witnessing an attack on the author's life, AFP reported. Like many other residents of the Chautauqua Institution…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Commentary: Stop linking Rushdie attack to cancel culture

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989 made clear that the greatest threat to artists, intellectuals and journalists in the modern era comes from authoritarian states. In recent years, the latter have increasingly outsourced violence to murky non-state actors. This grim trend has been underscored by…

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Iran gloats, America plots, but even a nuclear deal will not tame Tehran

As Khamenei crows over Rushdie, Biden seeks a revived pact. But make no mistake: this poisonous regime will always need its Great Satan

The Guardian - UK

Letters: we praise Salman Rushdie now. Why not then?

The attack on the author of The Satanic Verses has been universally condemned. It has not always been thus

The Guardian - UK

Ricky Gervais 'hires own security guards for gigs after Sir Salman Rushdie stabbing'

Ricky Gervais has reportedly hired his own security guards for a series of intimate performances in London following news that author Sir Salman Rushdie had been stabbed at an event last week

Daily Mirror

Walking with Salman Rushdie to a tube station now seems like a distant age

After our interview, he offered to take me there even though he clearly had no idea where he was going

The Guardian - UK

Iran Deal Tantalizingly Close, but US Faces New Hurdles

Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a plot to kill former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. A resolution may be…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Free in speech but imprisoned when moving’: A look at writers facing death threats

The attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state on August 12 highlights the plight of other writers threatened with death, who are forced to live every moment in a state of fear. FRANCE 24 takes a look at numerous writers around the world who have received death threats.

France 24

Hafta 394: Release of Bilkis Bano's rapists, stabbing of Salman Rushdie, Rohingya refugees

This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Mahesh Langa, senior assistant editor of the Hindu.

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Safety concerns loom as writers show public support for Rushdie

Under the watch of counterterrorism officers and police in tactical gear, hundreds of people gathered in front of the New York Public Library on Friday to show support for Salman Rushdie, the author stabbed multiple times at a literary event a week ago.

The Independent UK

Authors and friends rally and read for Salman Rushdie

Friends and fellow authors have spoken out on Salman Rushdie's behalf during a rally on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library

Daily Mirror

Inside Iran’s worst Fatwa with 30,000 hanged in just two months in industrial slaughter

WARNING UPSETTING CONTENT: Ayatollah Khomeini - who issued a Fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses book in 1989 - had issued a similar edict condemning 30,000 of Iran's political prisoners

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Paul Auster, Aasif Mandvi and others support Salman Rushdie with public readings

Writers Jeffrey Eugenides, Roya Hakakian, Kiran Desai, Tina Brown, Gay Talese and others gave live readings from the author's work as he recovered from a brutal attack.

The Guardian - US

Salman Rushdie: writers gather in New York to read author’s works in solidarity

Event organized by Pen America champions freedom to write after novelist survived assassination attempt last week

The National (Scotland)

Scot put under fatwa speaks out on Salman Rushdie and free speech

BEFORE Salman Rushdie moved to the US, there were only two residents in the UK subject to a fatwa – an Islamic legal edict that can be placed on…

Reuters

Hezbollah chief has no immediate comment on Rushdie stabbing

The head of Lebanon's pro-Iran group Hezbollah said on Friday he had no immediate comment on the stabbing attack against Indian-born author Salman Rushdie in the United States because the group was still gathering information.

Reason

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Editorial: An attack on Rushdie — and free society

In 1989, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa that called for the killing of author Salman Rushdie for his portrayal of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."

WEKU

Since 1989, threats to Salman Rushdie have sparked support and debate on free speech

Last week's attack has reignited debates over free speech, censorship and offensiveness that were already heated back in 1989, when an op-ed by a former president called Rushdie's book an "insult."

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